
POETRY OF FLOWERS. 





‘ Live for to-day ! to-morrow’s light 
To-morrow’s cares will bring to sizht: 
Go, sleep like closing flowers at night, 
And Heaven thy morn will bless.’ 



















Hi FLOWERS AND LIFE. 

Gl) Love.izst of God’s creations 
elit Are the flowers that gem the earth ; 
Hie In life’s various relations, 
. ’Mid its scenes of wo and mirth, 5 
They are ever valued by us, e’en as things of price- : 
less worth. 
Mark the child amid them roving 
Full of innocent delight ; 
Mark the youth and maiden loving, 
Giving to each other’s sight 
Those many-hued interpreters which tell their hid- 
den thoughts aright. 
—-— 


When the marriage vows are spoken, 
And the merry bells outring, 
i What so well fond hopes betoken, 
He What so fit can friendship bring, 
‘Po strew the path wherein the pair are newly en- 
tering ? 
Pe 



